World Wide Spread of XMRV/MLV in ME/CFS

Belgium

Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tested frozen samples of blood taken from well-documented CFS patients around 20 years ago.

Lo’s team collaborated on the study with Dr. Harvey J. Alter at NIH's Clinical Center (CC). Their work was funded in part by NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the De Young Foundation.

Pulic Health Barcelona November 2nd 2010. Key points noted in the article, which is written in Spanish, are the Discovery of the HIV - XMRV in 70% of the CFS patient population and the immune response that occurs when the infected cell appears. Researchers see this as Key to the mechanisms that contribute to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.